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Arched footbridge erected as temporary substitute for Water Street drawbridge.

Arched footbridge erected as temporary substitute for Water Street drawbridge.
Arched footbridge erected as temporary substitute for Water Street drawbridge.
Arched footbridge erected as temporary substitute for Water Street drawbridge.
Arched footbridge erected as temporary substitute for Water Street drawbridge.
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Arched footbridge erected as temporary substitute for Water Street drawbridge.
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01/01/1939
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The Water Street drawbridge was carried away by a high tide during the hurricane of 1938. It was more than a year before cars could use the street again, but a temporary arched bridge accommodated foot traffic. The original Atlantis arrived home just before the storm, making an estimated 15 knots under sail along the way--it rode out the storm safely tied to a pair of moorings off the pier. Pop Schroeder's vigorous caulking kept the laboratory in the basement of Bigelow largely dry so that damage at WHOI was minor. Even Dean Bumpus's wallet, which washed out of his pocket while he was seated on a bar stool at Cap'n Kidd on Water Street during the storm surge, was found in a nearby rosebush the next spring.
Caption from Down to the Sea for Science, pg. 43:
The Water Street drawbridge was carried away by a high tide during the hurricane of 1938. It was more than a year before cars could use the street again, but a temporary arched bridge accommodated foot traffic. Atlantis arrived in homeport just before the hurricane ("we made 15 knots...under sail coming in") to ride out the storm safely tied to a pair of moorings off the pier. Pop Schroeder's vigorous caulking kept the laboratory basement largely dry so that damage to WHOI property was minor. Repairs included resetting stone blocks in the seawall, reconditioning lawns, and resurfacing the driveway. (And Dean Bumpus's wallet, washed out of his pocket while he was seated on a bar stool at Water Street's Cap'n Kidd during the storm surge, was found in a nearby rosebush the next spring.)
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